I think I'm going to start with The Master. Much like the Doctor, whenever the Master reginerates he becomes someone new. New look, new personality, and the Saxon Master was much more flamboyant to help match Tennant's Doctor. As for the "Skelator" look. The Doctor explained that one. When he came to back to life he came back wrong, because Sally threw something into the mix to try and prevent him from returning. He was burning through his lifeforce, burning himself out, and only sucking life from other people kept him going. He became an Energy Syphon.
The Doctor though and his regen into 11th was handled brilliantly. They never really delved into what exactly happens when the Doctor has to regen, it just usually happens. To him, it would be like dying. He stops being him and becomes someone new. His name, his memories. But a different face, different personality, the Doctor as he was dies. So why would he be happy and smiling as he goes out? I think the line "I Don't Want To Go" Worked brilliantly for both the Doctor and Tennant. David said himself he didn't want to go, but he needed to go before it became a Job. Because he never wanted the Doctor to feel like a Job.
I also enjoyed how much of a role Wilfred played. Of all the Tenth's allies, it felt like he was the closest to the Doctor. An Old Soldier, Wary of Taking Life, Reaching the End.
And I'm glad they left alot to our imaginations. One thing I hate in shows like this is having everything spelled out for me. What fun is that? You get the implied notion that it was the Doctor's Mother from how David reacts to seeing her. And as for Rossilon, that was more an Easter Egg for Whovians who knew what role he played in the early days of the Doctor.
And now the end. You have to remember in the movie "The Planet of the Dead" the old woman from the bus said "He Will Knock Four Times, and Then You Will Die". The Doctor, as many of us, took that to mean The Master. With the ever-present drumming haunting him. But having it be Wilf, having the Doctor give his life to save a man he'd be proud to call his father? Meant so much more. I even appreciated him going on a final goodbye tour.
And now we're back to your problem with that goodbye tour. We'll start with Jack. The Doctor wanted to see his friends happy one last time before he 'died'. Yes, Jack did something horrible during Children of Earth. But I think that was his way of saying he could be forgiven. Mickey and her being together doesn't bother me either. And I loved seeing him say goodbye (in a roundabout way) to Rose.

I loved End of Time, it's by far the best of the Tennant Specials.

Not disagreeing with you there, Simm was brilliant in season 3 and was the perfect foil to Tennant.

I know what it was, it just didn't fit the character. Nor the revelation that he's the way he is because the Time Lords are dicks.

Like I said, it was pandering to the audience that think Tennant is the be-all, end-all of Doctor Who. Which is still incredibly vocal among casual fans of the show.

Again, no arguments there. I love Wilf.

It was a pointless scene though. That woman didn't serve any purpose, and the look was literally just a look. And Rassilon isn't exactly just an easter egg when he was the main villain of the story.

But it was still a massive rip-off of "Wrath of Kahn".

I'm not talking about what Jack did. Jack lost the love of his life in Children of Earth and the Doctor's answer was to fix him up for a quick shag with a random bloke he's never met. Martha and Mickey had no onscreen chemistry at all (Hell Martha was engaged to someone else before then) and yet they're suddenly married. Including Rose was just RTD getting his Mary Sue character in one last time.

I'm glad you liked it. Unfortunately for me its my least favourite new series Who episode and among my least favourite ever, so I'm a lot more critical of it :lol

Okay, let's see if we can get through this. *Cracks Knuckles*

I think The Time Lords were Dicks explain alot of Tennants time as the Doctor :lol And much of Smith.
It wasn't pandering. Tennant was an amazing Doctor. His tenor helped solidify the series back into the modern era, moreso than Eccleson. Alot of the new Whovians only know Tennant, so him leaving was a very big deal. They were basically taking a leap of faith they'd like the new guy.
And she did serve a purpose. She helped guide Wilf where he needed to be, helped him get the revolver into the Doctor's hand right when he needed it most. Without her who knows what might've happened.
I just don't see that Khan thing. I get what you mean, I just don't see it.
And that's Jack, though. That's his personality. Look how he handled much of his personal problems in Torchwood. It was usually by bending Ianto over peices of equitment. Then sex seemed to be how the lot of them handled problems :lol And Mickey.. I think alot of it is you just don't like Mickey. Which I can see, I hated him to. But I also didn't like Martha much.

Dude, I really liked Mickey :lol Like Rory he was one of the few companions I actually felt grew as a character

I didn't like either. Then, I never really liked Amy.

I hated Amy and Rory...and River Song, seriously the show is called DOCTOR WHO so don't push him into the background for your extremely forced dues machina companions.

What happened to just normal men and women going on adventures with this crazy old man in a blue box? Now every companion has to be one of the X-Men and also has to dribble over his dick for the entire series.

I agree, but sadly its something that's prevalent with the modern version of the series and isn't going to go away soon :(

If they won't do a proper alien companion again the least they could do is one that isn't from goddamn modern day Earth.

I liked Amy in season 5 but by the end of her run she was grating. I like that they have more to do in the current series than historically. A lot of times in classic Dr Who the companions were about as useful as Shunpei in Wizard.

True but they were meant to be normal people and act almost as our vessels to go travel with the Doctor. Then Moffat skipped out active participation and went straight to making them all these ludicrously over important people and it's a problem when they become more important than your main character.

I think a problem is that the modern audience kind of expects the companion to be ludicrously important as well. When the companion is not so significant, like Martha, they get criticized and forgotten, maybe?

I think modern Who has screwed up a lot of perceptions of the series, honestly.

As much as John Hurt as the Doctor is perfect, I also loved him as a choice because it isn't another sexy Doctor pile of shit. The Doctor was never meant to be sexy, not conventionally anyway. I hate all this new emphasis on the Doctor being young and attractive with girls fawning around him, it makes him feel less special and more of a douchebag.

The Doctor should feel like Gandalf not Legolas.

SPOILER WARNING for The Name of the Doctor!

The Doctor isn't always old though. Even in the classic series, we see the Doctor get younger (until the 6th, which slightly reversed that trend). Peter Davison is still the second youngest actor to start playing the Doctor. Still I agree that they could tone down the sexy bits in Doctor Who. Have more companions like Donna who don't want anything romantic with that "space-man". This goes for the tone of the entire series as well.

Seeing an older Doctor was a big part of my excitement as well. While I loved Matt Smith's "old guy in a young body" take, it would be really nice to have an older actor play the Doctor again. This may be the only time we can legitimately see one, as I don't think any mainstream incarnations of the Doctor in the future are going to be old-looking.

Hasn't it already aired in the US? Therefore is no longer a spoiler?

I don't just mean old, but the Doctor is now this young, hip, sexy man in a box and it's just all wrong. The Doctor was never ugly or whatever but he wasn't ever conventionally sexy either. There was supposed to be this strange, mystery around him, this quirky alien feel, Eleven just looks like he should be stood in a Topman window.

Don't get me wrong, I love Matt Smith as an actor, and Eleven is a great character but I just don't like the modern approach to the character visually.

I like putting spoiler tags just in case, I'm pretty sure quite a few people are still finding the time to watch it.

For me, I think Eleven does a decent job at playing a weird, eccentric spaceman despite his youthful appearance. I suppose that they tried to do more with it the way he dresses like the first three Doctors, but unfortunately (fortunately for the fangirls), he still looks great in a coat and bowtie. :lol

I do feel that Eleven is the more alien of the three New Series Doctors, though.

I find it hard to see him as an alien when he's flirting with women, snogging women and got women hanging off him all over the place. It feels like one of those 'hip reiamagings' studios do when they completely misunderstand the source material.

But yeah Ten was just as bad, I think Nine got off best in this regard, that is why a lot of the modern audience completely skip him and that fucking fills me with hatred.

Ten was worse actually. He definitely did fall for women more often. Eleven didn't really flirt with anyone much outside of River and the TARDIS, he always felt more grandfatherly to all those girls fawning over him. Yes, all the women hang off him, but he doesn't really do it much himself, I feel.

Nine wasn't thaaaat chaste, remember the bits of dialogue he exchanged with Jack Harkness?

The whole interaction between Clara and Eleven was flirtation.

And that is true about Nine, but let's be honest, how can you not flirt with Jack Harkness?

i just finished the season finale of doctor who and all i have to say is........ WHAT. THE. HELL. JUST. HAPPENED.

Here's an activity for you guys. Imagine BBC hired you as head writer, and you're to decide the characterizations and stories for a series featuring a new Doctor. Describe:

1. The Doctor: His personality, his characterization, his appearance, his speech, etc. Describe what sets him apart from the other eleven.
2. His Companion(s): Describe at least one companion; personality, age, time period, etc.
3. The theme: Describe what the theme or overaching plot of your series will be. If you don't think there should be one, describe it too. For extra creativity points, describe some stories such as the opening or the finale.

Apart from that, be creative. Describe what monsters you will include, any returning characters, what adventures he will embark on, where he will go, etc. You could even come up with new monster ideas if you feel extra creative.

Let's hear your ideas!

All I've ever really thought about in terms of this, is my dream Doctor has always been Ken Stott, playing a character liked Red in messiah.

I just want the doctor to offer Jellie babies again like in old who

I've never really though about actors I'd like to see in the role (honestly I'm not all that attentive when it comes to TV actors) but judging on Rowan Atkinson's performance as the Doctor in "The Curse of Fatal Death" (yes I know it was a comedy episode, but it's still the best Who Moffat has ever written) that's the kind of character I'd like to see. Visually he played him like McGann, but I'm more referring to the kind person with a very snide sense of humour about him.

Companion-wise I'd like to see a larger group again, since it worked so well in "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship". 1 male and 1 female would work too, but I'd like to see them completely unrelated to each other and from different time periods.

Episodes....whatever as long as there's no overarching plot. I'm done with those. I want a big Dalek episode done properly (get Nick Briggs to write it rather than just get him do the voices, he does BRILLIANT Dalek stories). Featuring the Dalek Time Controller is a must as he's the best thing to come out of the Daleks in years.

Since I don't have a way of watching the old series', quick question. Had the time war had happened already, happened during those series, or in between 8 and 9?

It happened sometime between the TV movie and series 1 of the modern show.

It would never happen, but I would love to see John Nobel ( Walter Bishop on Fringe) as the doctor if they would ever have an older actor again. Not really going along with the game, just a thought I had.

John Nobel would be an excellent Doctor.

Seems everyone here wants an older Doctor. :D

Add me to that list. I just don't see what everyone's issue is with John. He's John Freaking 1984 V For Vendetta Hurt! COME ON MAN!

Wait who has an issue with John? Best news in a while!

I don't think anyone has an issue with John, its just who exactly John is playing people take issue with.

He's John Hurt! >< Much like Bill Nighy, he can do anything he wants.

I want Ben Kingsley =p

Anyway, The Doctors Name was a decent episode. It was kind of paced weird though, like a lot happened but nothing happened at the same time.

I also wish Jenny stayed dead. Harsh i know and I do really like the scooby gang, but it would have just added more weight to the episode. The twist/Hint at the end was very awesome though.

Overall this half season has been very hit and miss for me, it was alright but nothing to get super excited about =)

It's Doctor Who :lol No one stays dead.

I'm in agreement with you here...kind of. I expected her to come back from the dead (after all, they've already resurrected Strax once) but to have her be killed and resurrected in the space of about 5 minutes killed any gravity that scene was supposed to have.

Killed twice, in the same episode. Once by the Whispering Men and once because of the Timeline being rewritten. And both times she came back within quick order.

Exactly. I thought they'd really upped the stakes, I sat watching it thinking 'oo this is gonna be good' then they conveniently revived her moments later. Could've at least revived her by the Doctor doing some clever timey wimey stuff, not just Strax with a remote control =p

And I've been thinkng about this episode and what they've established with events in past episodes. And none of it makes sense. It was said that No Man Can Tell a Lie, yet the Doctor seemed quite capable of not saying his name no matter how much TGI asked. The Silence were no where to be found and they were the damn ones trying to stop it from happening the first place. There was no mention about what reason either. They just left so much out. And another thing that's been bothering me is River. According to how the scene was set, this happened in her timeline after The Doctor saved her to the Library. So she's alread 'dead'. Yet that never happened in the episodes yet, and I was looking forward to that since they first teased it in Silence in the Library. I know he hates Goodbye's but come on.

What's so confusing about that?

They never showed him showing up at her door, with the new haircut, taking her to see the daimond falls, and giving her his sonic (giggity). And I hate when they do that. If you say something happened, show it freaking happening. Not just "Happened off-screen, tra-la-la!"

It's not as confusing as it is plot holey. It just sort of leaves you feeling like you've missed something, at least thats how I felt.

Kind of like reading a Grant morrison graphic novel, just requires a few more watches/reads or a later issue/episode to make sense.